We Made It!

We arrived at Mike's cousin's house in Oakland Sunday afternoon, all safe and sound. We took a little tour of some potential neighborhoods, then this morning we got on Craigslist, printed out some potential apartments, and took advantage of free BART to go to some of those neighborhoods and walk around. ("Close to BART" doesn't always mean it's an easy walk; it's good we were able to test that before we got too excited about potential apartments.) We found a couple places we're interested in and hope to visit a couple more neighborhoods tomorrow.

The cats are fine; they're very happy to be out of their cages and out of the car. They're getting along well with the 3 dogs that live here.

We have dial-up internet here; I'll post more in a few days when we find a wi-fi coffeeshop.